my Life

Tuesday

17th February.

Well more rain in Scotland,today! Talking about water, I note that two submariners are in very hot water! I always thought that the Atlantic was a bit on the chilly side. However, two nuclear submarines were in the same little area of the Atlantic Ocean and at the same depth! It appears that they were going in opposite directions when they bumped into each other.

Surely, an e.mail would have been better!!

In America, there has ben yet another super fraud. In the region of $8bn has gone astray. Where does all this money go?  More importantly, who is supposd to check these people? Are they out to lunch?

Countries of the World are up to their eyeballs in debt. I have often wondered what would happen if a country just said, "Sod this, I ain't paying!"  Would a team with saws come round and hack off a bit of the country and float it in the Atlantic Ocean? 

In any case, it is only the interest on the debt that is being paid and the principal of the loan is still there forever. That principal was made out of thin air anyway. Produced from the fractional banking scam. Push the button make more money!!

I have been operating a similar legal method to give me the comfort and "toys" which I have around me. This is how it works.

I got four home shopping catologues and bought some items from each. I paid each one by Credit Card and paid the Credit Card bill each time it fell due. So four £20 payments paid by Credit Card required me to pay £10. Instead of me taking £80 out of my monthly income I paid £8.

As the catologue amounts owed reduced, of course, my credit card debt increased. But the "saving" of £72 from not outlaying it to pay the catologues was available. I put some of this into the credit card debt thereby reducing it. Round and round and round!

I had the goods that I wanted for very little actual outlay and the big joke was that all of it was from benefit income provided by the State.

As I "paid" the catologues off my buying power increased and I had a higher spending limit. As I paid my credit card, regularly, my limit rose there too!  Not only was it all derived from benefit,all of the credit loans were unsecured.  Should I default and not pay anyone then I get to keep the stuff and they eat the bill.

Kinda like the countries getting a loan to buy guns and paying the interest for a while and then saying "we got great guns, come and get your money!"

Some say MICRO some say MACRO but it is all economics to me!

byeeeee      

my Life

Monday

16th.February.

It is raining in Scotland and so the weather is back to "normal" after our usual bit of snow. The temperature is going up into the 50's and the now and frezing cold has gone for another year.

Global warming I don't think so.

If the industrial revolution caused it then why did we, apparently, have an Ice Age and a Warm Age and an Ice Age. Getting it yet?   Cyclical.

The guys who own piratebay are on trial in Sweden. They could get 2 year in jail. Hope they got access to a computer. Their defence bing that they provide the system and other people abuse it.

Their is an uploader going by the subriquette aXXo who got a big write up in the Sunday Times  a few weeks ago. Whoever he/she/they are they spend a lot of time uploading films. Do they ever leave their computer? They/he/she must have access to a video store as they could not afford to buy all that they have uploaded. aXXo has bcome a cult with messages tagged onto the film details "if it's aXXo it will be good."  By the way it alway is good.

I can see that if everybody got films for free then eventually there would be no more films. The studios, performers, writers, uncle Tom Cobbly and all would lose their income. As News International, owners of the Sunday Times, are heavily involved in pay for view movie via their Sky system, I think that the write up is a warning shot and it will not be long until their is a trial in U.K. So aXXo change your name and plea keep on going because I enjoy them!!!

So poor David Beckham has to stay with L.A. Galaxy and not move to Milan. I thought that the owner transferred the player and not the player who chooses where and when he will move !!

"Self Defence" they claimed. Police Officers who shot and killed an innocent man on the London Tube are not to be charged. John Charles de Menendese "might" have been a bomber. You have been warned!!   

"Well, your Honer, I thought he/she had a bomb so I shot him/her!" is now a legal defence for any officer to shoot YOU!

Save yourselves, get naked!

Byeeeeee   

My Life

Sunday

15th February

It is 0830 hrs and I have spent the night backing everything up onto the new Hard Drive and doing a bit of cleaning up the computer drive as well. Gives a sense of security knowing things are in more than one drive. Might even hook up the scanner,later, after a few bacon butties and a good sleep.Read the Sunday Papers and the kids with the kid have taken the banks off the front pages. But not for long!

Now here is a good conspiracy! It looks like LloydsTSB were sold the dummy when they bought HBOS. You know TSB started out in Dumfries and Perth as a farmers mutual and with expansion later became a bank. Prior to them becoming a bank there were three big banks in Scotland.

The Royal Bank of Scotland, Bank of Scotland and the Clydesdale Bank.

They had established themselves over hundreds of years and printed their own notes. The TSB came up very quickly and ate into their market. The merger with Lloyds made a new stronger competitor who had to be taken down a peg. Previously, the big three had taken over smaller banks or been taken over, quietly, themselves. The new LloydsTSB was a big player.

"Revenge is a dish best taken cold."  LTSB bought the dummy and are now heading for nationalisation. They have long memories these bankers!!  No "Johnny come lately" is going to break up their cartel.   

byeee

My Life

Saturday

14th February

Still bitterly cold in Scotland and so I am staying bed! my new terrabyte Hard Drive arrived yesterday and I have passed morning moving about 20 movie on to it. Now with 1,000 gig of free storage I can download concert footage as well as more movies to watch on my 42 inch TV !!

Ain't technology wonderful!

In the new a 13 year old boy has fathered a kid with a 15 year old girl!  The newpapers are killing each other to get an exclusive and the Sun has won the race. Why? Let them stew in it. They will make a mint out of it!  

It is illegal to have intercourse under age so why are they not locked up or charged with that offence? People are not allowed to benefit from the procedes of a crime No doubt,any "income" will be put in a trust. 

The same racket "pays" amateur atheletes. They are amateurs, some claiming benefit, but their appearance money goes into an off shore trust to be collected when they "retire." Well I suppose that you can't eat a medal unless it is chocolate!!

The Banks ar in more trouble Let them go bust!  If Fred & Doris open a shop and a supermarket opens up down the road they go bust. Why should a bank be any different??

The conspiracy theorists have found out that a woman who, sadly, died in the Buffalo plane crash was a 9/11 widow who continually attacked the Government view that Al Khaki did it.

The only khaki involved in 9/11 was the khaki worn by the military spooks involved. How can anyone believe that a guy sitting in a cave, with no electricity, could have planned 9/11 ???

Did he run his Cray mega computer by a team of muppets peddling a bike generator? It would need a mega Cray to run the airline programmes, alone.

Oh well back to the movies!

byeeeeee     

  

My Life

Tuesday/Wed/Thur./Fri  

10th to 13th

Had a bad few days. A real fever and a lot of joint pain so my thought are a bit jumbled up.

That Dutch guy Wilder got asked to leave Britain. Another wonderful case of not being able to afford the advertising costs. The film showed in the House of Lord anyway and without all the publicity it would have been a non event. Like many others having watched the news of him landing and leaving I found and watched the film on the Internet. I had never heard of it prior to the media scrum.  The power of free advertising !!!!   The media fall for it every time.

The guy ha a point. Why not get everything out in the open and discuss and decide policy after fair and balanced debate. What is wrong with that hypothesis??

A like some bits of Muslim law and some I think are despicable. But I am not a Muslim. If you join the club then you obey the rules!  Simple.

However, I will not have anyone telling me if ,who or how I worship.  If  I wish to enquire about how a person or group worship then I will either ask, politely, or research on my own. Currently, I am reading the Koran, which is a long book.  Having watched Wilder's film I am not going to just agree or disagree without looking at both sides.  Sheep follow the Shepherd,

An arsonist has been arrested in Australia and a plane has hit a house in New York. In Wales two small planes had a midair collision in loads of empty sky! The student pilots were cousins. Were the Instructors "out to lunch?"    

I run a ship plotter programme on my computer. Last week I mentioned that tankers and vehicle carriers were "parked" at Flotta and Isle Of Wright. Well there are more at Humberside and Teeside in U.K.

At Finnart in Scotland, there is a tanker unloading every other day for pumping to Grangemouth Refinery. It is the biggest joke in the petrol garage industry that almot all of the petrol in Scotland comes from B.P. at Grangemouth.  Esso have storage tanks at Dumbarton and a little is delivered into South Ayrshire and Dumfrieshire by road tanker from England but all the rest comes from Grangemouth.

Another good one. Irn Bru, the soft drink.  Most of it is made in the North of England and brought to Glasgow in unmarked road tankers to be bottled. Well the Grant money in the North East of England was so tempting!! A little is still manufactured in Scotland, at the original plant, but it amounts to a small percentage of the total output. 

Oh well the fever broke last night and I am coming together a bit this morning. Back to my big 42 inch TV.

Byeeeeee

My Life

Monday 9th. February.

Well another Monday! Bob Geldorf got it right when he wrote the numer 1 hit "I don't like Monday."

It really cn be a boring day and mine are nine time out of ten. The Oz fire problem now look like deliberate fire raizing. Oh really !!!

My local paper reporting about people who made a loa of money claiming benefit to which they were not entitled.  14 people were involved and each, alledgedly,got a five figure amount over a period  of three year. There are 70 people required to appear in court not counting the time involved building the case. Lawyers fees will no doubt, come from legal aid funding.

The total amount  put out raizing the trial will be many time greater than the amount that they alledgedly collected!!! Then, if there are encarserated, it will cost approximately £750 per head per week to keep them there.

Under an old system they would have been interviewed by a Civil Servant and more than likely visited in their home. In order,to save money, (what a joke) a person may now claim via the internet!!  

The Bankers from The Royal Bank of Scotland received a grilling from a House of Commons elect committee live on TV. £20 million of taxpayers money had to be put in to the Bank to bail it out or it would have gone burst!

It appears that they have set aside a billion pounds for annual bonuses for the staff who wrcked the Bank!!!

Ain't finance wonderful???

My ankle is still badly swollen and walking is very difficult and painful. So I am proped up watching my big TV, playing Chess and Mahjong.  "Charlie Wilson's War" is on later and that will pass the evening.

byeeeeeeee

My life

Sunday

I had to get rid of the packing which came with the TV as I was expecting a grocery delivery. I was sore from hobbling to and from the car and hobbling out and in with the packing did not help to much.

My groceries arrived right on time and had to be packed away in the freezer and cupboards. It really is a fabulous system. You pick your items on the computer and book a delivery slot which suits you. You can pay by either Debit or Credit Card as you please.

I am sore and flop onto the bed and crank up the computer to "read" the Sunday papers. All National and International papers are on the web and time passes until tea time. There is a bad fire in Australia with loss of life. This is similar to Los Angeles. Both have fires every year. It is strange that water dropping planes and firemen are available after the fires beigin.  Why don't they drop water on forrests which are dry and suseptible to fire risk before the fires start??  Surely that would make sense!

I bet that the some of the owners of the forrestry sell the land for more housing. A fire is a good way around a lack or refusal of planning permission.

Fire raisers are rarely caught and almost all of these fires are started deliberately. So if they drenched the woodland when it became dry it would reduce the fire probability. The cost of drenching the woodlands prior to a fire starting is surly the same as after a fire begins.

Oh well more pills. 

byeeeeee